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Mountain Province State Polytechnic College

Hello! I am currently in the process of fixing the article in preparation for a renaming per a few updates. However, the history section appears to be a full copyvio although Earwig is down for a moment. Inviting you to take the necessary steps to fix possible problems. Borgenland (talk) 15:59, 28 August 2024 (UTC)

Hi @Borgenland, sorry for not getting back to you sooner. The content was present since 2011, so I am not going to perform revision deletion in this case. — Diannaa (talk) 18:34, 16 September 2024 (UTC)

I understand. Appreciate your help. Borgenland (talk) 01:21, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Modern history of the Negev

Hi! :)
You recently tagged my draft (now further drafted as History of the Negev during the Mamluk and Ottoman periods) with the Overquotation tag. First of all, thank you for that. You were absolutely right, and I have removed many unnecessary quotes from the footnotes. However, I am unsure about three of them. Could I ask for your opinion on these? It concerns footnotes 56, 57, and 81. In all cases, the wording could be omitted without significant loss. My reasoning was that these sources are written in Early New High German and Gothic script; nearly no reader will be able to check these sources. The translations of these sources were only intended as an "extra service." Would you still recommend removing them? Thanks and best regards, DaWalda (talk) 16:50, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Hello DaWalda. That's a good question. For translations I would suggest we are better off keeping them, as it adds to verifiability. — Diannaa (talk) 19:29, 29 August 2024 (UTC)

Thanks for your edit Homosexuality

Dear user,

thanks for your professional edit - the Tausch study. By the way, this Austrian political scientist was thrown out from Wikipedia (see the documentation available via wikipedia category „austrian political scientists“) about the time when Springer published the book „ development, globalization, global values, and security . Essays in honor of Arno Tausch.” edited by Glen Segell, Cambridge University and Univ of Haifa. What miserable comedy. please look at the reviews of the book available from the springer website and compare this please with the utterly unacceptable tone of the debate on the deletion of the Tausch article. there are by the way, quite interesting articles on this political scientist in other languages, including Spanish, Italian, and FrenchFrete unicolore (talk) 20:36, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

The content in question was added by someone else. My only reason for visiting the page was to add the attribution template, as part of copyright cleanup. It's up to the regular editors of the article to decide whether or not the addition belongs in the article. — Diannaa (talk) 22:30, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

List of journalists killed in the Israel–Hamas war

• FYI: Entry #12 (October 14, 2023) -- you deleted the journalist's name but nothing else. 50.75.202.186 (talk) 21:28, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
  • I did not delete any names. Some of the names were missing when I arrived at the article on May 25, 2024. — Diannaa (talk) 22:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

    My apologies. I assumed you had based on this edit, which deleted all the other previous edits due to copyright violations. If I was wrong, apologies. In any event, there is only one unnamed fatality now (entry #12 for the date of October 14, 2023). It appears to refer to a female but only one journalist was killed on that date and the profile matches the description: "Yousef Maher Dawas, a contributing writer for the Palestine Chronicle and a writer for We Are Not Numbers (WANN), a youth-led Palestinian nonprofit project. He was killed in an Israeli missile strike on his family’s home in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Lahia, according to WANN and Palestine Chronicle." (Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war - Committee to Protect Journalists (archive.org))

    The page is locked so can you update? Thanks, 50.75.202.186 (talk) 17:29, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

    Please request an edit on the article's talk page. Cite your source. Thanks — Diannaa (talk) 20:05, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

McKinsey & Company - WSJ Citation

Thank you for the heads up on a plagiarism for the WSJ citation on the McKinsey page. However, the WSJ article was cited and I believe it had a sentence quoted with quotation marks (the post has been removed and I can't go back and verify that). I guess I'm not understanding how it was plagiarism if it was cited and quoted? Thank you in advance for your help.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/diversity-was-supposed-to-make-us-rich-not-so-much-39da6a23 PerseusMeredith (talk) 12:20, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

There were no quotation marks. — Diannaa (talk) 12:50, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

My bad. Will the post comply if I properly include the quotation marks? Thank you for catching this. PerseusMeredith (talk) 23:38, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

It's an opinion of James Mackintosh from the Wall Street Journal. Someone added a "citation needed" tag, commenting "citation needed for studies showing no causality: later citation is about methodology, but that does not necessarily imply that causation is not proved in a rigorous study- burden is on claim to show that specific methodology *and therefore specific* results are not reliable. Currently only says there is *some* debate in methodology, but about what point specifically?" So no, I don't think it's a good addition, even if you change it to an attributed quote. If you want to get further input on this potential addition, please consider posting on the article's talk page. — Diannaa (talk) 00:31, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Diannaa, just a heads up that PerseusMeredith did something similar in the Diversity, equity, and inclusion article [1] where they copied exactly from the source (archival link in case you need it [2]). Again no quotation marks although it's not the sort of thing we should be quoting anyway. The copyvio has IMO been satisfactorily resolved with this edit [3] by another editor. So if you feel revdeleting in justified then I think deleting all edits between them [4] should be sufficient to fix it. To be clear, these happened at about the same time so it isn't a reoccurring problem per se, although I do wonder if it means they've done similar things elsewhere. Anyway I also mentioned this and you at this ANI thread Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents#PerseusMeredith as I felt the copyvio problems were more significant than anything else mentioned in that thread. Nil Einne (talk) 04:51, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Just in case you've already looked at the ANI, I've added some more examples I found elsewhere which causes me some concern. Nil Einne (talk) 10:48, 9 September 2024 (UTC)

Help needed at CopyPatrol

I had to do several RL things today and now we have 102 items in the queue to be assessed. I am gonna need some helpers please. Paging some recent participants: DanCherek, GreenLipstickLesbian, Ymblanter, Randomstaplers, Compassionate727, The4lines, and Win8x. Any interested talk page watchers could do a few cases as well! Please stop by and help, even if you only have time to clear a few cases. Thank you very much! — Diannaa (talk) 22:23, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Done like a dozen of them. Might as well ask you a question once you have the time and you're experienced; what do you do with errors 404? What's the action to take? win8x (talking | spying) 23:51, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi win8x and thanks for helping!

That's a good question. I will typically check for an archived copy using https://web.archive.org/. If I find nothing there, I will look at the iThenticate report to see what I can find out. Sometimes pasting part of the suspect text into a Google search locates the source document. If you are able to determine the title of the article you're looking for, you can sometimes locate it by googling that. I only rarely have to give up completely. If you can't solve a case, it's ok to leave it for others to give it a try. Thanks again! — Diannaa (talk) 23:59, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

Paraphrasing

When you have a minute, I'd like a second opinion on whether edits like this are paraphrasing too closely. —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 16:28, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

I would say that one is okay. Scientific or medical information is not easily reworked into our own words. It would have to be more egregious than this for me to remove it. — Diannaa (talk) 20:22, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

I dont understant what you want me to fix, please email me via jgodl @ protonmail . com

John Godl (talk) 13:02, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

@John Godl: Prose you find online, in books, in magazines, and in newspapers is almost always copyright, and cannot be copied here; it's against the copyright policy of this website to do so. All prose must be written in your own words. — Diannaa (talk) 13:05, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Inquiry

I want to create a page for this man https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%82_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AF%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%86 this is his arabic page and when i was talking to my friend and asked her about him she replied to me with that she doesn't know him and then i asked her to look him up here on wikipedia but she told me that she couldn't find the page for him, and now I'm thinking about creating an English page for him since he's an economist who had developed the banking sector in saudi arabia. unfortunately i cannot do it since im not an admin, can you help me with it? 176.224.41.144 (talk) 11:37, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

You can get started in draft space. It's possible to do that even if you are not logged in. See Wikipedia:Drafts#Creating and editing drafts. — Diannaa (talk) 12:59, 10 September 2024 (UTC)

question

hi thanks for letting me know I will not make the mistake again I have 2 questions. So how would I expand an article like do I use general knowledge, or the internet but in my own words (for facts/info) also do I just sign talk sites with ~ or do I sign with edits to articles to? many thanks BoydSquirrel ~~~~

BoydSquirrel (talk) 15:25, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Hi @BoydSquirrel. It looks like you are just starting out editing and have a lot of very basic questions, many of which can be answered by looking at some of our help pages that are set up to help people learn how to edit Wikipedia. Please see Help:Introduction for some guidance. There's people available at the Teahouse who are experienced in helping newcomers with specific questions.

That said, please don't add general knowledge; we have moved past that point in the development of the site. What we are looking for is material written in your own words that you've learned through available reliable sources. Cite your sources. Don't add copyright material to Wikipedia. Don't sign your name in articles. — Diannaa (talk) 18:36, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

Help (again) needed at CopyPatrol

We currently have 92 items in the queue to be assessed at CopyPatrol. I have to go to physio now and will have limited availability today for that reason. Paging some recent participants: GreenLipstickLesbian, The4lines, Compassionate727, Ymblanter, Randomstaplers, and DanCherek. Any interested talk page watchers could do a few cases as well! Please stop by and help, every little bit helps. As always, thank you! — Diannaa (talk) 18:49, 11 September 2024 (UTC)

The queue is now under ten items. Thank you to everyone who helped! —Compassionate727 ^(T·C) 19:40, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Thank you everybody! — Diannaa (talk) 22:51, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Copyrights involving Christian List's philosophy papers

Explanatory gap

Hello. I noticed that you removed some of my edits where I cited some articles by Christian List. I believe the articles I cited were this and this. Would you mind going into more detail on what the exact copyright violation was? ImmortalRationalist (talk) 17:24, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

I removed some material copied/too closely paraphrased from https://philarchive.org/s/Christian%20Borch. "He argues that the non-supervenience of the first-personal (and indexical) facts on the third-personal (and non-indexical) ones, together with the assumption that the physical facts (as conventionally understood) are third-personal, entails that some facts – namely, first-personal, phenomenal ones – do not supervene on the physical facts" and "List also believes there exists a "quadrilemma" for theories of consciousness, where no theory of consciousness can simultaneously respect four initially plausible metaphysical claims – namely, ‘first-person realism’, ‘non-solipsism’, ‘non-fragmentation’, and ‘one world’ – but that any three of the four claims are mutually consistent." This was in response to a report at CopyPatrol, here. — Diannaa (talk) 22:37, 12 September 2024 (UTC)

Could you check Draft:Giovanni Timoteo Calosso please

Hi, hope you are well. I saw that you are an active administrator in the AfC field and wanted to request that you review the draft and give feedback and/or accept it. Thanks. Perast (talk) 21:31, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

So sorry, but I have never checked a draft, so I am not going to be able to help you. — Diannaa (talk) 21:36, 13 September 2024 (UTC)

Copyright violation (2)

Hi Diannaa, could you rev/del the copyright violation at Certificate of analysis. Copied from [5] Edits [6]. Thank you, Knitsey (talk) 10:20, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

Revdel complete. Thanks for the report. — Diannaa (talk) 13:16, 18 September 2024 (UTC)

An Link from Miss Grand Philippines

I Know its a Error, I'm sorry for any missions. Malincharanan (talk) 09:05, 22 September 2024 (UTC)

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